Three Things to Consider when Setting Up Data Compliance
This article seeks to highlight three items that we consider to be important when it comes to #data compliance. It is based on the work that we are doing to support organisations implement or strengthen data compliance systems. 1. Apply the age-old #compliance frameworks when implementing data compliance. The framework is tried and tested and provides a useful implementation framework that covers: - policies and procedures (including code of conduct and #ethics ), - effective #communication (hotline), - training, - compliance office (outsourced or in-house), - #audit and monitoring, - consequence/accountability management, and - third party transactions. You will note that registration with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) is not listed as an element on its own. Registration is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of compliance. In fact, we consider registration, particularly the declarations made in that process, as exposing organisations ...